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Sundance Review: ‘Give Me Liberty’ is a Frenetic One-Day Adventure that Loses Momentum

If it wasn’t Vin Diesel behind the Fast & the Furious franchise, but rather a second-generation Russian-American living in a frigid Wisconsin, and if our pr...

Slamdance Review: ‘This Teacher’ is an Intriguing, Reductive Tale of a Vacation Gone Bad

For most of its runtime, This Teacher plays things close to the chest. In its tale of a vacation gone bad, director/co-writer Mark Jackson flirts with different...

Sundance Review: ‘Photograph’ is a Lush, Low-Key Romantic Drama

Street photographer Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) makes a living snapping tourists in front of the Gateway of India. He has a simple sales pitch: the sun you feel,...

Ruminate on Life and Death in U.S. Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s ‘Hotel by the River’

Hong Sangsoo, the prolific, celebrated director of On the Beach at Night Alone, Right Now, Wrong Them, and many more, slacked a bit and only premiered two new...

Sundance Review: ‘The Last Black Man In San Francisco’ is a Passionate, But Laborious Feature Debut

The impetus for The Last Black Man In San Francisco in 2019 makes a lot of sense. Cities like San Francisco have been changing, due to an influx of mostly young...

Sundance Review: ‘The Report’ is a Thrilling, Sharply Written Procedural

With it now being over a decade since the Bush-Cheney era, our perspective on the recent history is greater, which means it is time for filmmakers to have a str...

Sundance Review: ‘The Lodge’ is a Slow-Burning Freakshow with a Chilling Finale

Comparisons to Ari Aster’s Hereditary are legitimate from pretty much the opening scene of The Lodge, Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s follow-up to Goodnight...

Sundance Review: ‘I Am Mother’ is a Contrived Australian Sci-Fi Chiller

At the Sundance berth of Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother, an Australian sci-fi chiller in need of some trimming, I found myself far more concerned with the producti...

Sundance Review: ‘Steig Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire’ Explores the Author’s Fight Against the Extreme Right Wing

Diagnosing the fire that fuels the extreme right wing in Sweden as well as the business interests (publications, record labels, the political machine) that it p...

Sundance Review: ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ Puts a Spin on the Serial Killer Drama

From exhaustive investigative documentaries to slick, disturbing thrillers to even meta tales of destruction courtesy of Lars von Trier, it seems like the seria...

News

Richard Kelly Releasing “Gigantic” Debut Novel This Year

Radu Jude Will Shoot New Feature Love Diptych Next Month

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Reviews

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

Interviews

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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